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STAT Australia North Korea HISTORY
Administrative divisions 6 states and 2 territories*; Australian Capital Territory*, New South Wales, Northern Territory*, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia 9 provinces (do, singular and plural) and 2 municipalities (si, singular and plural)<br /><strong>provinces:</strong> Chagang-do (Chagang), Hamgyong-bukto (North Hamgyong), Hamgyong-namdo (South Hamgyong), Hwanghae-bukto (North Hwanghae), Hwanghae-namdo (South Hwanghae), Kangwon-do (Kangwon), P'yongan-bukto (North P'yongan), P'yongan-namdo (South P'yongan), Yanggang-do (Yanggang)<br /><strong>municipalities:</strong> Nason-si, P'yongyang-si (Pyongyang)
Capital city > Geographic coordinates 35 17 S, 149 13 E 39 01 N, 125 45 E
Capital city > Name Canberra Pyongyang
Constitution 9 July 1900; effective 1 January 1901; amended several times, last in 1977 previous 1948, 1972 (revised several times); latest adopted 1998 (during KIM Jong Il era); revised 2009, 2012
Executive branch > Cabinet prime minister nominates, from among members of Parliament, candidates who are subsequently sworn in by the governor general to serve as government ministers Naegak (cabinet) members, except for Minister of People's Armed Forces, are appointed by SPA
Executive branch > Chief of state Queen of Australia ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952); represented by Governor General Quentin BRYCE (since 5 September 2008) KIM Jong Un (since 17 December 2011)(SPA) reelected KIM Yong Nam in 2009 president of its Presidium with responsibility of representing state and receiving diplomatic credentials
Executive branch > Head of government Prime Minister Anthony John "Tony" ABBOTT (since 18 September 2013); Deputy Prime Minister Warren TRUSS (since 18 September 2013) Premier PAK Pong-ju (since 2 April 2013); Vice Premiers: HAN Kwang Bok (since 7 June 2010), JO Pyong Ju (since 7 June 2010), JON Ha Chol (since 7 June 2010), KANG Nung Su (since 7 June 2010), KANG Sok Ju (since 23 September 2010), KIM In Sik (since 13 April 2012), KIM Rak Hui (since 7 June 2010), KIM Yong Jin (since 6 January 2012), PAK Su Gil (since 18 September 2009), RI Chol Man (since 13 April 2012), RI Mu Yong (since 31 May 2011), RI Sung Ho (since 13 April 2012), RO Tu Chol (since 3 September 2003)
Government type federal parliamentary democracy and a Commonwealth realm Communist state one-man dictatorship
International organization participation ADB, ANZUS, APEC, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), Australia Group, BIS, C, CD, CP, EAS, EBRD, EITI (implementing country), FAO, FATF, G-20, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NEA, NSG, OECD, OPCW, OSCE (partner), Paris Club, PCA, PIF, SAARC (observer), SICA (observer), Sparteca, SPC, UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNMISS, UNMIT, UNRWA, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC ARF, FAO, G-77, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICRM, IFAD, IFRCS, IHO, IMO, IOC, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, NAM, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO
Judicial branch High Court (the chief justice and six other justices are appointed by the governor general acting on the advice of the government) Central Court (judges are elected by the Supreme People's Assembly)
Legal system common law system based on the English model civil law system based on the Prussian model; system influenced by Japanese traditions and Communist legal theory
Legislative branch bicameral Federal Parliament consists of the Senate unicameral Supreme People's Assembly or Ch'oego Inmin Hoeui
Political parties and leaders Australian Greens Party [Christine MILNE]<br />Australian Labor Party [Bill SHORTEN]<br />Country Liberal Party [Terry MILLS]<br />Family First Party [Steve FIELDING]<br />Katter's Australian Party [Bob KATTER]<br />Liberal National Party of Queensland [Campbell NEWMAN]<br />Liberal Party [Tony ABBOTT]<br />National Party of Australia [Warren TRUSS]<br />Palmer United Party [Clive PALMER] <strong>major party: </strong><br />Korean Workers' Party or KWP [KIM Jong Un]<br /><br /><strong>minor parties:</strong><br />Chondoist Chongu Party [RYU Mi Yong] (under KWP control)<br />Social Democratic Party [KIM Yong Dae] (under KWP control)
Political pressure groups and leaders <strong>other: </strong>business groups, environmental groups, social groups, trade unions none
Suffrage 18 years of age; universal and compulsory 17 years of age; universal
Country name > Conventional long form Commonwealth of Australia Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Executive branch > Elections the monarchy is hereditary; governor general appointed by the monarch on the recommendation of the prime minister; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or leader of a majority coalition is sworn in as prime minister by the governor general last election held in April 2012; date of next election NA
National symbol(s) Southern Cross constellation (five, seven-pointed stars); kangaroo; emu red star
Flag description blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and a large seven-pointed star in the lower hoist-side quadrant known as the Commonwealth or Federation Star, representing the federation of the colonies of Australia in 1901; the star depicts one point for each of the six original states and one representing all of Australia's internal and external territories; on the fly half is a representation of the Southern Cross constellation in white with one small, five-pointed star and four larger, seven-pointed stars three horizontal bands of blue (top), red (triple width), and blue; the red band is edged in white; on the hoist side of the red band is a white disk with a red five-pointed star; the broad red band symbolizes revolutionary traditions; the narrow white bands stands for purity, strength, and dignity; the blue bands signify sovereignty, peace, and friendship; the red star represents socialism
Country name > Conventional short form Australia North Korea
Constitutional form Constitutional monarchy Republic
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International In 2007, Australia and Timor-Leste agreed to a 50-year development zone and revenue sharing arrangement and deferred a maritime boundary; Australia asserts land and maritime claims to Antarctica; Australia's 2004 submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) extends its continental margins over 3.37 million square kilometers, expanding its seabed roughly 30 percent beyond its claimed exclusive economic zone; all borders between Indonesia and Australia have been agreed upon bilaterally, but a 1997 treaty that would settle the last of their maritime and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) boundary has yet to be ratified by Indonesia's legislature; Indonesian groups challenge Australia's claim to Ashmore Reef; Australia closed parts of the Ashmore and Cartier reserve to Indonesian traditional fishing risking arrest, imprisonment, and deportation, tens of thousands of North Koreans cross into China to escape famine, economic privation, and political oppression; North Korea and China dispute the sovereignty of certain islands in Yalu and Tumen rivers; Military Demarcation Line within the 4-km-wide Demilitarized Zone has separated North from South Korea since 1953; periodic incidents in the Yellow Sea with South Korea which claims the Northern Limiting Line as a maritime boundary; North Korea supports South Korea in rejecting Japan's claim to Liancourt Rocks (Tok-do/Take-shima)
National anthem <strong>name: </strong>"Advance Australia Fair"<br /><strong>lyrics/music:</strong> Peter Dodds McCORMICK <strong>name: </strong>"Aegukka" (Patriotic Song)<br /><strong>lyrics/music:</strong> PAK Se Yong/KIM Won Gyun
Legislative branch > Elections Senate - last held on 7 September 2013; House of Representatives - last held on 7 September 2013 (the latest a simultaneous half-Senate and House of Representative elections can be held is 30 November 2016) last held on 8 March 2009 (next to be held in March 2014)
Legislative branch > Election results Senate NA; House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - Liberal/National Coalition 53.45%, Australian Labor Party 46.55%; seats by party - Liberal/National Coalition 90 (Liberal 58, Liberal National 22, Nationals 9, Country Liberals 1), Australian Labor Party 55, Australian Greens Party 1, Katter's Australian Party 1, Palmer United Party 1, independents 2 percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; ruling party approves a list of candidates who are elected without opposition; a token number of seats are reserved for minor parties
Democracy and rights > Press freedom index 15.24
Ranked 16th. 		83.9
Ranked 2nd. 6 times more than Australia
Independence 1 January 1901 (from the federation of UK colonies) 15 August 1945 (from Japan)
Judicial branch > Subordinate courts subordinate courts at the federal level: Federal Court; Federal Magistrates' Courts of Australia; Family Court; subordinate courts at the state and territory level: Local Court - New South Wales; Magistrates' Courts – Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory; District Courts – New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia; County Court – Victoria; Family Court – Western Australia; Court of Petty Sessions – Norfolk Island provincial, municipal, military, special courts; people' courts (lowest level)
Basis of executive legitimacy Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence Power constitutionally linked to a single political movement
Transnational Issues > Illicit drugs Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate; major consumer of cocaine and amphetamines for years, from the 1970s into the 2000s, citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea (DPRK), many of them diplomatic employees of the government, were apprehended abroad while trafficking in narcotics, including two in Turkey in December 2004; police investigations in Taiwan and Japan in recent years have linked North Korea to large illicit shipments of heroin and methamphetamine, including an attempt by the North Korean merchant ship Pong Su to deliver 150 kg of heroin to Australia in April 2003
Democracy and rights > Freedom of the press 21
Ranked 163th. 		97
Ranked 1st. 5 times more than Australia
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament 24.7%
Ranked 35th. 23% more than North Korea 		20.1%
Ranked 54th.
Democracy > Civil and political liberties 6
Ranked 9th. 		0.0
Ranked 133th.
National holiday Australia Day (commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet of Australian settlers), 26 January (1788); ANZAC Day (commemorates the anniversary of the landing of troops of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I at Gallipoli, Turkey), 25 April (1915) Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), 9 September
Capital > Geographic coordinates 35 16 S, 149 08 E 39 01 N, 125 45 E
Judicial branch > Judge selection and term of office justices appointed by the governor-general in council for life with mandatory retirement at age 70 judges elected by the Supreme People's Assembly for 5-year terms
Politics Tony Abbott&#039;s conservative Liberal-National coalition swept into office in elections in September 2013 A family dynasty heads a secretive, communist regime which tolerates no dissent
International law organization participation accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; accepts ICCt jurisdiction has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; non-party state to the ICCt
Foreign relations > Date of recognition of Israel None
None
Democracy > Democratic institutions rating 10
Ranked 23th. 		-9
Ranked 135th.
UN membership date 1 Nov. 1945 17 Sep. 1991
Capital city Canberra Pyongyang
Capital > Name Canberra Pyongyang
Legislature (parliament) > People per member 97,044
Ranked 35th. 3 times more than North Korea 		35,009
Ranked 75th.
Democracy and rights > Year women first voted at national level 1902 1946
Capital > Time difference UTC+10 (15 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) UTC+9 (14 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
International relations Australia is a regional policeman; further afield, its troops have served in Iraq and Afghanistan The armistice of 1953 ended armed conflict on the Korean peninsular, but the two Koreas are technically still at war; tensions have been exacerbated in recent decades by North Korea&#039;s nuclear ambitions
Legislature (parliament) > Lower house members 150
Ranked 63th. 		687
Ranked 3rd. 5 times more than Australia
Role of head of state Ceremonial Executive
Foreign relations > Nepal > Date of Establishment February 15, 1960 May 15, 1974
Trademarks > Nonresidents > Per capita 0.797 per 1,000 people
Ranked 8th. 3 times more than North Korea 		0.303 per 1,000 people
Ranked 47th.
Trademarks > Nonresidents per 1000 0.795
Ranked 8th. 3 times more than North Korea 		0.293
Ranked 50th.
Foreign relations > Croatia > Date of Establishment February 13, 1992 November 30, 1992
National anthem > Name "Advance Australia Fair" "Aegukka" (Patriotic Song)
Trademarks > Residents 37,202
Ranked 8th. 3 times more than North Korea 		14,239
Ranked 16th.
Legislature (parliament) > Total members of parliament 226
Ranked 50th. 		687
Ranked 11th. 3 times more than Australia
Legislature (parliament) > Term of office for lower house members 3
Ranked 181st. 		5
Ranked 11th. 67% more than Australia
National anthem > Note adopted 1984; although originally written in the late 19th century, the anthem did not become official until 1984; as a Commonwealth country, in addition to the national anthem, "God Save the Queen" serves as the royal anthem (see United Kingdom) adopted 1947; both North Korea and South Korea's anthems share the same name and have a vaguely similar melody but have different lyrics; the North Korean anthem is also known as "Ach'imun pinnara" (Let Morning Shine)
Capital city > Time difference UTC+10 (15 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) UTC+9 (14 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Trademarks > Residents > Per capita 1.85 per 1,000 people
Ranked 5th. 3 times more than North Korea 		0.705 per 1,000 people
Ranked 14th.
Trademarks > Residents per million 1,848.33
Ranked 5th. 3 times more than North Korea 		683.32
Ranked 16th.
Trademarks > Nonresidents 16,007
Ranked 8th. 3 times more than North Korea 		6,112
Ranked 23th.
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments > % 26%
Ranked 51st. 67% more than North Korea 		15.6%
Ranked 115th.

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